“...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.”--Stephen King
drake tortured a grasshopper this weekend. tomorrow is my painspecialist appointment. today was a good day minus the being late for work because of road closures.
i'm off to finish dinner. i'm making stuffed shells, garlic toast and salad... YUMMY!
first he takes the whole thing into his mouth so only it's mouth and antennae is sticking out.
then he spits it out and catches it with his paw and throws it into the air. --he does this routine quite well, if he had better balance he could probly juggle 2 grasshoppers at once...
then he'll drop it and sit on it. lay on it. smother it up. by this point i thought it was dead... nope still alive!
and so the torturing continues with him licking it like he's sayin he's sorry and carrying it around in his mouth. all the while the damn thing is still twitching and trying to hop away.
finally after about an hour the poor thing is dead and Drake is ready to come back inside.
A lesson to be warned to other grasshoppers "Don't jump on our balcony to get out of the rain... The cat will torture you!"
What does into torturing a grasshopper anyway?
ReplyDeletefirst he takes the whole thing into his mouth so only it's mouth and antennae is sticking out.
ReplyDeletethen he spits it out and catches it with his paw and throws it into the air. --he does this routine quite well, if he had better balance he could probly juggle 2 grasshoppers at once...
then he'll drop it and sit on it. lay on it. smother it up. by this point i thought it was dead... nope still alive!
and so the torturing continues with him licking it like he's sayin he's sorry and carrying it around in his mouth. all the while the damn thing is still twitching and trying to hop away.
finally after about an hour the poor thing is dead and Drake is ready to come back inside.
A lesson to be warned to other grasshoppers "Don't jump on our balcony to get out of the rain... The cat will torture you!"